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Chapter 574 Turbulent Situation

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, half a year had passed since the Whip of God was defeated and fled. During this half year, the European continent was also in turmoil.

King Thorishold of the Visigothic Kingdom successfully ascended the throne and stabilized the domestic situation. Thorishold also played an important role in defeating the Scourge of God this time. This gave him absolute authority in the army.

Now the Visigothic king began to turn his attention to Gaul, while the Frankish chief Merovingian also wanted to occupy Gaul. Although there was no war between the two sides, some friction was inevitable.

The relationship between the two sides changed from joining forces to fight against the Whip of God to a subtle hostility.

The Germanic barbarians were also gathering strength, preparing to march south to plunder once again, and the situation in the Roman Empire was even more complicated.

The struggle between Aetius and Valentinian III became increasingly fierce. Aetius was dismissed by the emperor, but everyone knew that this order was just a formality.

Even if His Majesty the Emperor took over Aetius' military power, the army would immediately obey Aetius's order.

No one was optimistic about the emperor, but who could blame Aetius for being such an important official? If it were someone else, he would have entered the court without bowing, bowed without naming his name, and entered the palace wearing a sword and shoes, and then he would have been given the Nine Gifts, commanded the military forces of the country, and was named the King of Italy.

Finally, he accepted the abdication and officially became emperor.

But Aetius did not
This Protector of the Roman Empire is truly worthy of being the last pillar of the Roman Empire.

As for the Hun Empire, the situation was also not peaceful. Attila's defeat made many people think that the Hun Empire was doomed, so those countries that had originally submitted to the Hun Empire began to no longer obey its orders.

These included the Ostrogothic Kingdom and the Eastern Roman Empire.

Seeing that these countries dared to rebel, Attila was furious and led his army to attack them again. The Ostrogothic Kingdom soon couldn't hold on, and the king of the Ostrogothic Kingdom surrendered in just one month.

Attila killed the king of the Ostrogothic Kingdom and let his son inherit the throne and continue to be a vassal of the Hun Empire. At the same time, as a punishment, the tribute of the Ostrogothic Kingdom was doubled.

Next, Attila ordered the Ostrogothic Kingdom to send troops to follow him to attack the Eastern Roman Empire. Although he had the support of Saint Henry, Attila also had shamans who believed in all spirits around him.

The help that Saint Henry could provide was very limited. In addition, there were too many archers among the Huns. Now that this mythological era had passed, it was impossible for Saint Henry to continue using his divine magic.

Therefore, after several battles with the Hun army, the Eastern Roman army had to retreat and flee back to Constantinople.

Attila led his army to surround Constantinople.

The Huns were not good at siege warfare, but there were some good siege fighters among their vassal troops, such as the soldiers of the Ostrogothic Kingdom.

So Attila ordered the army of the Ostrogothic Kingdom to attack Constantinople.

In fact, Attila knew very well that it was impossible to capture Constantinople with the soldiers of the Ostrogothic Kingdom alone. This time he wanted to teach these two countries a lesson.

The capital of the Eastern Roman Empire was besieged, and many legions came to reinforce, but almost all of these legions were defeated by the Huns.

Eventually Constantinople lost all its reinforcements and had no choice but to surrender.

Attila also knew that Constantinople was easy to defend but difficult to attack. If it took too long, would other vassals rebel? So Attila agreed to the surrender of Constantinople.

However, he also doubled the tribute to the Eastern Roman Empire and demanded that Constantinople pay nearly two tons of gold as compensation.

By defeating the Ostrogothic Kingdom and the Eastern Roman Empire again, Attila told the world that he was still the powerful Scourge of God.

After seeing the Ostrogothic Kingdom and the Eastern Roman Empire being defeated by him and their fate, the remaining vassals immediately became obedient. Some vassals who had ulterior motives were even trembling with fear, fearing that Attila would find out.

Attila's military actions made these people realize that even if he failed, not everyone could be Aetius.

After suppressing his vassals, Attila returned to the vicinity of Hungary and began to recuperate. The elite troops of the Hun Empire did not suffer too many casualties, but other troops needed to be replenished.

At the same time, Richard of the Rhine Province also began his plan.

After completing thirty blood knights, Richard began to prepare for a larger-scale raid on the Germans.

At the same time, he increased the efforts to migrate people from all over the country. In order to obtain more people, Richard began to cooperate with nobles and officials from all over the country, giving them some benefits and asking them to help migrate exiles.

On the one hand, the population was being relocated, and on the other hand, Richard was also preparing to raise some war horses and form a cavalry.

The Rhine Province is not very large, so Richard plans to set aside a piece of grassland to build a horse farm. In fact, the Huns' war horses are good, but not the best.

The Xiongnu Empire only had a large number of war horses, but it still took a lot of time to breed truly excellent war horses. Just like the ancient Dongda, as long as it owned Hexi, it would soon form a powerful cavalry. The Liangzhou horses were rampant all over the world, and this was not just talk, but a real record.

One of the important reasons why the war horses of Liangzhou are better than those of the nomadic peoples who own the grasslands is the systematic breeding, which breeds generations of excellent horse breeds and then uses these horse breeds to breed war horses.

These specially bred war horses are professionally fed a mixture of salt, beans and eggs, which is more nutritious than pasture and makes them fatter more easily.

The war horses that have undergone this professional feeding have surpassed most of the war horses of the grassland nomads.

This kind of warhorse has many advantages, but there is one problem, but only one disadvantage, that is, it is expensive. No, this is not its disadvantage, it is your disadvantage.

Richard is planning to form a small cavalry team, and the war horses they raise will be based on this standard. Fortunately, they are only raising them on a small scale now.

Richard integrated the soldiers in the territory. At this time, there were already 5,000 soldiers in the territory. These troops were nothing to the Visigothic Kingdom, the Franks and the Roman Empire, but they were enough for the Germanic tribes.

After all, the Germanic barbarians are just a tribal alliance. Although they have a large total force, there are not many people scattered among the tribes.

Five thousand people is already an overwhelming advantage.

Richard left two thousand men in the territory to guard the home, while he personally led three thousand men to prepare for the attack.

It looks like a major war is about to begin, but in fact, if the scale of the war is put into the East, it is probably a war between counties.

After all, how big is the whole of France? France in later times is only over 500,000 square kilometers, which is only slightly larger than the SC province.

The scale of this kind of battle is naturally not much larger.

In fact, the Germanic barbarians did not take Richard seriously. In their eyes, Richard was just a small character, and the really important one was Merovingian.

Who allowed Merovingian to occupy Paris, the most developed region in the province of Gaul?

Of course, it is the most developed, but the current permanent population of Paris is only 10,000, which is not even ranked in Italy. But for the Germanic barbarians, it is already a rare big city.

When Attila went westward on his expedition, he did not capture Paris, but only looted it.

Paris was able to develop into its current size because the Romans built city walls here and used it as a base for conquering barbarians.

But now, this base that was originally used to conquer the barbarians has become a base for resisting the barbarians.

The Germanic barbarians went south to plunder many times, but they never broke through Paris, and each time they bypassed Paris. Aetius commanded the Roman army to defeat the Germanic people many times, inflicting heavy casualties on them, and Paris played an important role.

The Romans were truly unique in Europe at that time, with their politics, culture, and technology far surpassing the surrounding barbarians. No wonder they looked at everyone as if they were barbarians.

Of course, only the Greeks can be looked up to by them. After all, Greek culture is relatively developed. The others are all scum.

What Rome admires most today is the ancient Orient. Orient's silk is a luxury here and no one can refuse it.

Roman books say that the silk was produced in Seres, a country that was extremely powerful and whose citizens were all giants three meters tall, and so on.

One can imagine the Romans' admiration for the ancient East.

Richard led 3,000 soldiers, 500 of whom were cavalry, and the remaining 2,500 were infantry. However, all infantry were equipped with bows and arrows or javelins.

The technique of throwing a javelin is not that easy to master. In comparison, bows and arrows are easier to master than throwing a javelin. If Richard was not worried that other countries would learn how to make crossbows, he would have wanted to equip his soldiers with crossbows.

The crossbow is easy to operate, takes little training time, and is very powerful.

It is far more useful than bows and javelins, but the crossbow is expensive to make, and once it is placed, if someone uses the crossbow to deal with him, he will be in trouble.

But crossbows must be equipped. Richard plans to start equipping himself with crossbows once he becomes strong enough. In this era, if he has 5,000 elite crossbowmen, he can defeat the Whip of God and the Roman Empire in one wave.

Richard led his army to find the Germanic tribes and launch an attack. This time he planned to plunder the Germanic people, food and livestock on a large scale.

If the Rhine Province wants to grow rapidly, it must absorb nutrients from other places. Now Gaul and the Germanic barbarians are its nutrients.

Once the Rhine Province becomes strong enough, he will defeat the Franks and occupy the entire Gaul region.

(End of this chapter)